Successive High Priests

Famous quotes containing the words successive, high and/or priests:

    “He represents the privilege of the intellect, the power, namely, of carrying up every fact to successive platforms, and so disclosing, in every fact, a germ of explanation.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Lord Bateman was a noble lord,
    A noble lord of high degree,”
    —Unknown. Young Beichan (l. 1–2)

    “Along the avenue of cypresses,
    All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
    Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
    The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)